“We’ve always viewed this as, well we’re taking care of you know people in lower income, but it’s about time we actually start talking about what we’re doing is we’re subsidizing businesses that either can’t or won’t pay their employees enough to have healthcare.”

Great Falls Development Authority

Here is our Top 10 for this week, celebrating work and successes to grow and strengthen the Great Falls regional economy. Cheers to all the DOERS in Great Falls and across the Golden Triangle — the entrepreneurs, businesses, developers, non-profits and governments that make great things happen!

Education News

For almost two years, four Wyoming biologists have been offering their perspective on outdoor issues via Right to Roam, a podcast that aims to bring science and expert opinion into a culture they say can lack a rigorous foundation.

Smart Columbus, the multimillion-dollar effort to reimagine wide swaths of the transportation sector in the city, is making grants available to drivers of ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft to phase out their gas-powered car and buy an electric vehicle.

With little fanfare or discussion, Nevada regulators have approved a major energy supply plan that will result in construction of six major solar projects and conditionally retire one of the state’s two remaining coal-firing power plants by 2021.

Privacy, Hacking and Virus Alerts

The U.S. is rushing to catch up with what cybersecurity experts say are threats by hackers to systems that operate energy pipelines, hydroelectric projects, drinking water systems and nuclear power plants across the country.